Vinca Minor Vines are an outstanding choice for deer-resistant ground cover because of their beautiful flowers. Also known as Creeping Myrtle or Periwinkle Flowers, these plants produce beautiful light blue and purple flowers. ... These ground cover are deer resistant mostly because of the odors they produce.
Is Periwinkle poisonous to deer?
1. Vinca. Vinca (Catharanthus) is a hardy annual plant that is drought-tolerant and doesn't taste good to deer.
What ground cover do deer not eat?
Perennial Ground Covers for Deer Control
- Allegheny spurge (Pachysandra procumbens) and Japanese pachysandra (Pachysandra terminalis)
- Northern sea oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
- Blue oat grass (Helictotrichon sempervirens)
- Liriope or "lilyturf" (Liriope spicata)
- Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans 'Atropurpurea')
